奧斯卡·王爾德
19世紀(jì)英國最偉大的作家與藝術(shù)家
I don’t love novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful.
If a man treats life artistically, his brain is in his heart.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is not more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relations.
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
She wore far too much rogue last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sigh of despair in a woman.
The telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then and then only, does it come into existence.
Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel certain that they mean something else.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating—people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing.
The most comfortable chair is the one I use myself when I have visitors.
Oh, I’m so glad you’ve come. There are hundred things I want not to say to you.
A publicist nowadays is a man who bores the community with the details of the illegalities of his private life.
I usually say what Ireally think. A great mistake nowadays, it makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
Conversation should touch everything but should concentrate itself on nothing.
Ihate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.